"Two sleeping dragons—one a sacred ally of mankind, the other its sworn destroyer. Two heroes marked with the symbols of the dragons. Their meeting heralds the dragons' awakening—and the world's ending."

The game brings back the world map system of Gaiden and The Sacred Stones, and reintroduces the Skills system in a form similar to Radiant Dawn, allowing you to learn additional Skills simply by leveling up, and even more of them by switching to different classes. It sports a graphical style reminiscent of the Tellius games with a more cartoonish bent, sporting a 2½D map and 3D fights. The character design and portrait art style—the work of Yusuke Kozaki, of No More Heroes fame—looks like it belongs in a seinen anime, which is a fresh departure from the overly-realistic art style from the DS games. A new feature introduced allows units to gang up on or block attacks from enemies when next to an attacking ally, which is also tied to an expanded Supports system, containing great amounts of dialogue between characters and extensive shipping mechanics.

The game was confirmed for both a European and North American localization at E3 2012, a fortunate return to form after the fate that befellits predecessor. It was released in Japan on April 19, 2012, North America on February 4, 2013, and in Europe on April 19, 2013.

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